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OPM issues memo on excused absence for voting

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Federal Daily News By FEND Staff October 10, 2012

The Office of Personnel Management issued a memo reminding heads of departments and agencies of the government’s policies for granting employees excused absence to vote in elections. Agencies have discretionary authority to grant excused absence.